India vs OECD (EI): Electricity generation from coal

India

1,474 terawatt-hours

in 2025

OECD (EI)

1,858 terawatt-hours

in 2025

India rank

2nd

OECD (EI) rank

1st

Electricity generation from coal over time

OECD (EI) currently reports 1,858 terawatt-hours against 1,474 terawatt-hours in India, a difference of 383.71 terawatt-hours.

That makes OECD (EI)'s figure about 1.3 times India's.

Across all 41 years both countries report, OECD (EI) has been ahead every year.

India ranks 2nd and OECD (EI) ranks 1st of 207 countries.

Indicator: Electricity generation from coal
Unit: terawatt-hours
Source: Ember (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 213 places, 6,154 data points, 1920–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured in terawatt-hours.